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So I thought that since the Teen parents got a cool club, those of us who aren't that far along should have our own.

Feel free to share stories, advice, vent frustrations, whatever!

P.S. To you teen parents who would love to reminisce...you're welcome to join in..

Ok, I'll start.

This morning I heard the chair scrape across the kitchen floor. I heard rummaging around, then the chair scrape back towards the table. A minute later, DS comes crab walking into my bedroom with his hands behind his back and a huge grin on his face.

"Mama...I'm...I'm hungry. I'm hungry to these. But they're yours. Can I have two!?!?"

He brought his hands out front. Sure enough. He's holding a Girl Scout cookie box of Samoas. I told him that those were Daddys, he's have to ask him. He giggles, "Can you call him!?"

We dialed Daddy up, he answers, all DS says is, "Daddy, I'm really hungry! Can I have two? Pleeeease?"

Daddy confirmed he could have two and hung up. As I'm counting the cookies, DS announces, "I can have two! No, two anna half!" No DS, just 2.

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne

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icbtih8♀ 23797Member # 23797

Posted: 11:02 AM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Where do I sign up?

My dd isn't quite there yet (will turn 2 in April) but I love how at 22 months she is her own person. Her own person who wants Nemo one minute and Beauty and the Beast literally the next minute. Goldfish one minute and in the next breath says she wants grapes. I swear I'm raising my mother.

D-day #1 - April 29, 2009

Beauty is a calling...a call "to transfigure what has harden or was wounded within you"
-- John O'Donohue

Posts: 5424 | Registered: Apr 2009

Aubrie♀ 33886Member # 33886

Posted: 11:06 AM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

DS is going thru a phase where breakfast consists of 2 Girl Scout cookies and 1 slice of bread with "JUST peanut butter on it. NO jelly. JUST peanut butter."

You are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem and smarter than you think.

Posts: 2213 | Registered: Nov 2011 | From: CT

Heartbroken1993♀ 27887Member # 27887

Posted: 12:00 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Ok I got a 15mth DS and a 3yr DD. Oh where should I begin.....
checking on DS because it got eerily quiet and found him on the TOP (not the sitting part, the dangerous defining gravity part) of the couch while pulling out every tissue from it's box OR when DD runs into her brothers room deliberately pees on his floor or should I say the dr. seuss book that is on the floor of her brothers room. Luckily IASS had to deal with peeing stint

I'm in the trenches with you all too! D is 2, bossy, total daddy's girl, cute as can be but very spoiled...I'm the oldest, she's the first grandchild, niece...you see where this is going!

this morning I was making her oatmeal and instead she points to the candy bag she recieved from a bday party we went to and when I tell her no she throws herself on the floor for her morning tantrum...when she finally calms down and sits down to eat her breakfast she looks at me as says "mommy go"...meaning she wants me to leave the room and not look at her when she's eating.....I already see the teeanage years are going to be fun

Posts: 632 | Registered: Aug 2011

tesla♀ 34697Member # 34697

Posted: 12:35 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Yay!! I'm in!

3 yr old son and I also went around about breakfast this morning. I'm pretty boring, so breakfast choices are the following: toast and jelly, granola bar, cheerios with honey or yogurt (or any combination thereof). DS says, "No, mommy. I have snack first then breakfast."
Snack is chocolate chip cookies that grandma made for him

Ended up throwing an epic tantrum over it. God, the patience this child requires!!! But in the end he opted for jelly toast and yogurt. And at snack time he got his precious 'gramma cookies'!

"Thou art the son and heir of a mongrel bitch." --King Lear

Posts: 4956 | Registered: Jan 2012

Aubrie♀ 33886Member # 33886

Posted: 12:45 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Daily vent....

WHY does he change his underpants EVERY time he uses the bathroom!? And what in the world is with that weird "guy smell" in the bathroom? I swear I clean it every other day and yet, it lingers. Gag.

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne

Posts: 7104 | Registered: Nov 2011

icbtih8♀ 23797Member # 23797

Posted: 12:57 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Food. Argh. My dd will eat anything and everything as long as its not in her plate. She's good if it's in mommy's plate, daddy's plate, the floor, anywhere but her plate.

D-day #1 - April 29, 2009

Beauty is a calling...a call "to transfigure what has harden or was wounded within you"
-- John O'Donohue

Posts: 5424 | Registered: Apr 2009

Lalagirl♀ 14576Member # 14576

Posted: 1:19 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Are grandmammas of toddlers welcome? I'm very well qualified...LOL!

GS is 2.5 yo. He has a new tactic when he's doing something he knows he should not do.

The other day he was at our house and was drawing on the wall. Just when I walked in the room, he turned to me and said, "Grandmom, I'm SO proud of you...I love you SO much!" His mamma told me this is his new diversionary tactic...worked pretty well, cause it totally took my mind off of fussing at him about drawing on the wall.

Potty training is a joke. He has no interest at all. When he has to #2, he goes into another room and shuts the door. If you enter, he will say, "Please get out; I need my "pri-za-see."

I hear ya. When they start with the "I love you Mommy!" for no reason, I get worried.

She slept all night in her new big girl bed last night.

Yayyyy! I love when they sleep in their own beds!

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne

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BooBoo!♀ 33195Member # 33195

Posted: 1:51 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Potty training in our home isn't going well at all here either! She will sit on her toilet only after she has done her buisness in the diaper.......and she takes her diaper off after #2 without telling me lol and then I have to chase her around and pray she doesnt smear any all over the place....I did hear duck taping the diaper works tho lol

Posts: 632 | Registered: Aug 2011

Crossbow♂ 15224Member # 15224

Posted: 2:46 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Hmm. No Dads??

DDay 7/4/07 found out about online/sexting EA with OM
DDay 7/25/07 found out about OW
In R

2 DSs, ages 9 and 7
DD, 2

Posts: 9384 | Registered: Jul 2007 | From: Utah

Aubrie♀ 33886Member # 33886

Posted: 2:50 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

Dads are more than welcome! Crossbow, you've had some great stories! Bring it on!

"Courage is being scared to death and saddling up anyway." - J. Wayne

Posts: 7104 | Registered: Nov 2011

RS2731♀ 33947Member # 33947

Posted: 3:38 PM, March 2nd (Friday), 2012

DS asked for chicken nuggets for dinner. I heated them up and added some ketchup (the OTHER food group). A few minutes later he's sitting there, staring forlornly at his almost full plate. I asked him what was wrong and he said "the chicken nuggets hurt my feelings."